Evicting the Fear.

Fear is a very powerful thing. Some call it a great motivator. That can be true, sure. Fear can motivate you, and that right there is your evolutionary advantage. Fear can definitely push someone or something to reach some extraordinary places. And sometimes that works out nicely. Awesome!
A lot of the time, though, fear can paralyze you pretty thoroughly. That deer in the headlights didn't become a widely-used idiom for no reason. At least, that's my experience. When I'm most afraid of something, it's insanely easy to lock up, shut down. How often is easy the best thing, though?

Anyway, this is a special kind of fear. It's the kind of fear that stops you in your tracks. The kind that looms. It's the kind that gets its own little miniature montage as its shadow steadily spills across the countryside before overtaking the entire city. It might just be me, but when that kind of stressful shadow drapes itself over the sun, it can get to the point where I find myself fixed right were I stand.

When this happens, I've gotta do something about it.

This particular kind of fear is absolutely the kind that needs to be dealt with immediately. This particular kind of fear is mitigating, and stops you from dealing with whatever problem is actually at hand. What really needs to happen is the changing of your problem into a challenge, so that you can develop a way to navigate it. What you need, when you're stuck in a situation that keeps you obsessing about all the bad shit that might happen in the future is to start getting on with all the good shit that you can do in the present to keep any of that bad shit from actually happening in the future. As a close friend of mine likes to put it: What time is it? It's now. And where are you? You're here. Right? Right.